About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains ...

For more than two centuries, scientists have argued over where dinosaurs came from and how a scattered set of bones turned ...

Arjan Mann (right), a Smithsonian postdoctoral paleontologist and former Peter Buck Fellow, and Calvin So (left), a doctoral student at George Washington University, holding the fossil skull of ...

Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a cartoonish grin ...

Researchers have now uncovered proof of an ancient giant amphibian that predates the time of the dinosaurs, existing over 250 million years ago. The new fossils were discovered at Dave Green ...

Researchers at the newly discovered site reported finding more than one hundred vertebrate fossils per square meter, making ...

About 60 million years ago, long before humans and just after the dinosaurs vanished, a giant snake rose to the top of Earth’s food chain.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

So Dilophosaurus is no longer believed to have been venomous; but what about other dinosaurs?  In 2009, a small, feathered carnivore from Cretaceous China called Sinornithosaurus was also speculated ...

A teacher made a rare find Monday when she uncovered a mystery fossil that appears to be older than the first dinosaur to walk the planet. Lisa Cormier, a teacher on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, was ...

All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience aging during their lives. Some animals' bodies do not gradually ...

Footprints of small dinosaurs, 250 million years old. Oct. 6, 2010— -- It was 250 million years ago, and the world had just been through hell. Something -- perhaps an asteroid impact, perhaps a ...